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    Spotlight | Belarus, France, Russia
    DGSE, MI6 flock to Minsk in bid to keep Moscow at bay

    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence in Russia, on 29 August 2026.
    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence in Russia, on 29 August 2026.© Kirill Zykov/Zuma Press/MaxPPP

    CIA director John Ratcliffe was not the only one to head east in recent weeks. Shortly before his visit to Moscow, France's DGSE sent a high-level delegation to Minsk to discuss the Ukrainian conflict. The UK's MI6 already made a similar trip to Belarus last year.

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    Africa, China
    African diplomats first to trial Beijing's new course on Xi's diplomatic thought

    A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the history of the Chinese Communist Party at Peking University, on 7 October 2022.
    A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the history of the Chinese Communist Party at Peking University, on 7 October 2022.© Jade Gao/AFP

    Two universities in the Chinese capital have recently begun trialling a course focused on Xi Jinping's views on diplomacy. A first cohort of civil servants, from Africa, was welcomed in the second quarter of 2026.

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    Poland
    Polish GEOINT firm SATIM allowing intelligence services to retrain its new SAR image analysis AI tool

    Automatic object detection in SAR imagery using SATIM’s artificial intelligence tool.
    Automatic object detection in SAR imagery using SATIM’s artificial intelligence tool.© SATIM

    Polish company SATIM is poised to present a solution at the upcoming MSPO exhibition in Kielce that enables intelligence services to retrain its models using their own radar images. This process can be carried out without any classified data leaving its environment.

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